Pansy is mad at the world.
December 6, 2024, 4:08 AMJust this week the great Marianne Jean-Baptiste won the best actress award from the New York Film Critics Circle for the blazing brilliance of her take-no-prisoners performance in "Hard Truths," the new Mike Leigh film that means to shake you and does.
When her son goes for a simple walk, she warns him the police will accuse him of "loitering with intent." Her husband, who raises pigeons in their backyard, nearly ducks when Pansy screams, "don't drag them rancid bird droppings into my house." And pity the chirpy saleswoman at a furniture store, who dares to ask Pansy, "Can I help you?"
Plenty as it turns out once you comprehend Leigh's methods as a filmmaker who writes the basic plot and some dialogue for his movies and then rebuilds his scripts after months of private improvisation with his actors. The result is a string of masterworks , which include 1996's "Secrets & Lies," his first collaboration with Jean-Baptiste, who won an Oscar nomination for her efforts. She may go all the way with "Hard Truths.
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